Mount Hampson

Hampson, Mount (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Mount Hampson  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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Place ID: 5944
Name ID: 1409

Feature type: Mountain

Origin

This name originates from Australia. It is part of the Australian Antarctic Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

Names that other countries have for this feature:

Narrative

One of the Tula Mountains, Enderby Land, about 2 km north of Mount Rhodes. Plotted from air photographs taken by ANARE in 1956. Named after R.V. Hampson, a member of the crew of the Discovery during BANZARE (1929-31).

Named For

Location

Latitude:
66° 48' 20.4" S
-66.80567°
Accurate to 200m
Longitude:
51° 11' 24.7" E
51.19019°
Accurate to 200m
Altitude:
Not recorded
Unknown precision

Images

No images of this place could be found.

Map

Source

Location Method:
Satellite Image
Source Name:
LIMA
Source Identifier:
Satellite image ( Satellite Image Catalogue - Scene Id E148_RGB_3231_1x not in the Satellite Image Catalogue. )
Source Scale:
1:40000
Source Institution:
Australian Antarctic Division
Source Person:
Brolsma
Source Publisher:
USGS
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Official
Date approved:
Unknown

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